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Peter Bengtsson

First of all, the difference is that "curl -v" is 7 characters. Just "c" is 1 character :)
This matters if you type it a lot.

Also, the -I means it does a HEAD request and the server might respond differently. For example the Content-Length header might be wrong/different.

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Jarod McBride

Peter, thanks for the post. What's the difference you get from the above as opposed to running curl -v -I http://www.peterbe.com/ ?